Carpet-stretcher



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY M. HARTSHORN, OF MALADE-N, MASSACHUSETTS.

CARPET-STRETCHER.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 28,858, dated June 26, 1860.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY M. HARTS- HoRN, of Malden, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful or Improved Carpet-Stretcher; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described and represented in the following Vspecification and the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a top view; Fig. 2, a side elevation; Fig. 3, a bottom View and Fig. 4, a longitudinal section of it.

The said carpet stretcher is to be employed by a person while engaged in nailing a carpet to a oor, and its purpose is to strain or stretch the carpet so as to force its edge or selvage up to its proper position and there hold it while the confining nail or tack is being driven.

In the drawings A, exhibits a flat plate provided on its under surface with spurs or points, a, a, a or equivalents and attached''to a handle, B. The front end of the plate is made with a notchor recess, b, between the two forward points or spurs. Furthermore,

a concavity or tack holding cup, C, is fixed on the upper surface of the plate A, the whole being arranged as shown in the drawlngs.-

In using the implement so made, a person is to grasp it in his left hand while holding a hammer in his right hand. By pressing the carpet stretcher downward so as to cause its spurs to enter the carpet, he will be able by pushing forward the implement to move the carpet up to the place required and there retain it while he can pick a tack out of the cup insert it within the notch, and drive it through the carpet and into the floor. The arrangement of the notch and the front or forward spurs enables the carpet to be held to better advantage about the tack than would be the case were there no notch in the stretcher as described. The cup forms a convenient receptacle for the tacks and saves the necessity of their being held in the mouth of a person as is common with upholsters or those who practice the business of fixing carpets to floors.

I claim- The combination of the tack holding cup with the carpet stretcher composed of a toothed plate and provided with a handle as specified.

HENRY M. HARTSHORN.

Witnesses R. H. EDDY, DANIEL FoBEs. 

